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blue boxes

blue boxes is the plural of blue box.

Meaning of blue box

Noun

blue box (plural blue boxes)

  1. (Canada, UK) A blue container used for the collection of household waste (such as tin cans and newspapers) for recycling by a municipal authority.
  2. (historical) An electronic device used to bypass payment on a tone pulse telephone system.
    • This was before Wozniak—known among the cognoscenti as Woz—almost woke up the Pope by calling the Vatican on his famed illegal "blue box," before he invented the Apple II and helped launch the personal computer industry, and before he gave up his brilliant engineering career and became a public...1998 September, Gary Wolf, “The World According to Woz”, in Wired, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2011
  3. (US, informal) A "tornado watch" notification category.
    • See also: severe thunderstorm watch
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, box.

Questions about blue boxes

What is blue boxes the plural of?
Blue boxes is the plural of blue box.

Words near blue boxes in the dictionary

  1. blue books
  2. blue bottle
  3. blue bottle experiment
  4. blue bottles
  5. blue box
  6. blue boxes
  7. blue boxing
  8. blue bubble
  9. blue bugle
  10. blue bugles
  11. blue bull

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